Mark Edward Mullen (born 1961) is a television journalist and the anchorman for NBC affiliate KNSD-TV in San Diego. He joined the station in June, 2010 from ABC News, where he served as a Los Angeles-based correspondent. Prior to ABC, he was Chief Asia Correspondent for NBC News, [1] regularly reporting news on notable Chinese and East Asian current events and contributing in-depth stories about China's changing culture, economy and political system. Mullen also has visited war zones to deliver stories from Iraq. He's covered stories from Europe and from across the U.S., including the aftermath of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. He's also drawn on his experience as a pilot to report on major plane crashes.[ citation needed ]
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Mullen attended Loyola University in New Orleans from 1981 to 1987, where he majored in journalism and Spanish. His first job was as an anchor and reporter for WLOX-TV in Mississippi. [2] the regional ABC affiliate covering the Gulf Coast. [3]
WLOX, virtual channel 13, is a dual ABC/CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Biloxi, Mississippi, United States and serving the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The station is owned by Gray Television. WLOX's studios are located on DeBuys Road in Biloxi, and its transmitter is located in unincorporated southern Stone County near McHenry. On cable, the station can be seen on Cable ONE channel 13 as ABC and channel 10 as CBS, and in high definition on digital channel 1013 as ABC and channel 1010 as CBS.
Mullen moved to KDFW in Dallas in 1989, and KRON in San Francisco in 1991. In 1997, he was made anchor of the national ABC overnight newscast World News Now . [4] He then returned to local news, with stints in Seattle and a return to KRON before joining NBC News as a national correspondent in 2003. [5]
World News Now is an American overnight television news program that is broadcast on ABC. Airing during the early morning hours each Monday through Friday, the program features a mix of general news and off-beat stories, along with weather forecasts, sports highlights, feature segments, and repurposed segments and story packages from other ABC News programs; its tone is often lighthearted, irreverent and humorous.
In late 2006 Mullen assumed a post in Beijing as NBC's first full-time correspondent in China since Ned Colt left in 2004. The new role was part of NBC's expansion of its bureau there, [6] which was tied to the network's effort to increase visibility of China in anticipation of irs broadcast of the 2008 Olympic Games. In Beijing, Mullen produced a number of notable stories, including a weeklong series on the "NBC Nightly News" called "China Rising" which examined a multi-faceted, changing China in the context of the October 2007 Communist Party Congress. [7] Mullen also contributed to the year-long series of Olympic countdown broadcasts for NBC's "Today" and "Nightly News." [8] His August 8 live stand-up from Tiananmen Square was the first live broadcast from the square since the Chinese government crackdown on student demonstrators in 1989.
Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square is a city square in the centre of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen located to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City. The square contains the Monument to the People's Heroes, the Great Hall of the People, the National Museum of China, and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China in the square on October 1, 1949; the anniversary of this event is still observed there. Tiananmen Square is within the top ten largest city squares in the world. It has great cultural significance as it was the site of several important events in Chinese history.
Mullen has won numerous national and regional awards for his work. He is married to San Francisco native Jamie Flanagan with whom he has two children.
